Meetings & Workshops

Community Meeting:

All Community Workshop #4

June 13, 2017, 6:30pm - 8pm

In this meeting we will share the latest architectural and landscape design plans for the proposed project at 3333 California Street. Over the past 2 years, our team has worked diligently to develop the proposed project design in collaboration with neighbors, community groups, the City and design advisors. Following this meeting, we will be submitting a Planning Application to the City of San Francisco, a required step in the City’s evaluation of our project entitlements. We will continue to collaborate with the community and City stakeholders to refine the project design as it moves through the City review process over the next 1.5-2 years.

The team will present a comprehensive conceptual design for the project and will include landscape and site design, architectural drawings, proposed building uses, project program, and referential design images. This presentation is intended to bring together the feedback and design work developed during the course of the community workshops over the past eight months. The design presented on February 1st will also form the basis for the Preliminary Plan Assessment (PPA) and Environmental Evaluation Assessment (EEA) that is being filed with the Planning Department. The PPA is an initial planning application that enables City Planning Staff to understand the conceptual design and provide initial comments and feedback. The PPA does not go before the Planning Commission or other legislative boards, and no official action can be taken regarding the approval of the proposed project under this preliminary application. The EEA application forms the basis of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) analysis of the project. The application enables the sponsor to begin the technical studies of the project impacts, including but not limited to traffic and transportation.

Format: Formal presentation by the design and development team members.

In this meeting, we intend to translate what we learned at the September meeting into site plan studies, architectural design ideas, proposed uses, and how these uses interact on and off the site through circulation, mobility options and community interfaces. We will also review building massing and the relationship of buildings on the site to each other and to the surrounding neighborhoods. The community will be encouraged to provide interactive feedback.

In the meeting we will share what we learned in the July community meeting, how that feedback informed our design values, and present urban design imagery that we believe to be responsive to those values. The community will have the opportunity to provide feedback and engage directly with the design team. The topics covered will include pedestrian experience, open space/landscape, mobility, neighborhood context, mix of uses, architectural design elements and sustainability. Similar to the July workshop, the format will be interactive stations hosted by the design team members.

This meeting focused on the site and the surrounding neighborhood as it is today. The turnout was impressive and we received a lot of great feedback about the neighborhood, what people like, issues of concern with redevelopment, and ideas that our project could incorporate that could enhance the community.

Getting to know us is as important as getting to know you. To that end, the 3333CALSF Project team has started our community outreach and is meeting with adjacent neighborhood organizations. These initial meetings help put faces-to-names, provide an overview of the entitlement process and schedule, and discuss our plans to receive community input throughout the process.